The New American School Chapters 7

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The New American SchoolChapters 7 8

• MLE 4760
• Dr. Pearson, Professor

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Full Service Please!

• Parents
• Community
• Community Agencies
• Special Needs
• Mainstream Needs

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Inclusion of Families

• Building appropriate parent involvement
• Meeting the Needs of special needs children.
• Mandates
• The GOALS 2000 Educate America Act
• The Individuals with Disabilities Act (IDEA)

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• IDEA Defines children with disabilities as
  having any of the following types of
  disabilities autism, deafness, deaf-blindness,
  hearing impairments, mental retardations,
  multiple disabilities, orthopedic impairments,
  speech or language impairments, traumatic brain
  injury and visual impairments.
• IEP A written statement for each child with a
  disability that is developed, reviewed, and
  revised

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Six Principles of IDEA

• Free Appropriate Public Education (FAPE)
• Appropriate Evaluation
• Individualized Education Program

• Least Restrictive Environment (LRE)
• Parent and Student Participation in Decision
  Making
• Procedural Safeguards

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Common Characteristics of Children with Learning
Disabilities/ Handicaps

• Developmental
• Intellectual
• Academic
• Learning
• Personal/Emotional
• Social
• See Table 7.1 p.187

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INCLUSION Terms

• Mainstreaming
• The practice of educating the disabled student in
  the general education classroom.
• Associated with sending a student from a special
  education class to a regular class for specific
  periods

• Inclusion
• Describes placement of students in regular
  classes for all or nearly all of the school day
• Students are mainstreamed only part of the day.

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Research

• Full Inclusion
• Partial Inclusion/Mainstreaming
• Mainstreaming/Partial Inclusion
• Integration
• Neighborhood Schools
• IEP

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Interventions

• Lesson Preparations
• Physical Arrangement of Room
• Assignments
• Organizations
• Behaviors
• Test Taking
• Special Considerations

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Full Service Programs

• Character Education
• Social and Emotional Learning Programs
• Programs For the Gifted
• Conflict Resolution (Peer Mediation)

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Chapter 8 Designing The New American Middle
School

• STANDARDS
• ASSESSMENTS
• TECHNOLGY

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Standards Based Education

• More is Not Better
• Aligning Assessment with Standards
• Six Steps for designing assessments

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Assessment Forms

• Teacher Made Assessments
• Observations
• Assessments by Commercial Test Publishers
• State Produced Assessments Like Floridas
• Alternate Assessments
• Authentic Assessments
• Performance Based Assessments
• Demonstrations
• Portfolios
• Exhibitions
• Essays, classroom Oral Presentation, Journal
  Writing

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The Role of Technology

• Internet Use
• Internet Projects
• Distance Learning
• Virtual Trips Projects
• Assessing Primary Sources
• Assessing Libraries and Databases

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Publishing Students Work

• MidLink Magazine http//longwood.cs.ucf.edu/MidLi
  nk/
• Poetry.com http//www.poetry.com/
• Teenwriting http//teenwriting.about.com/
• Scholastic http//scholastic.com/
• Cyberkids http//www.cyberkids.com/
• Assessing Primary Sources
• American Memory http//memory.loc.gov/ammem/ndlped
  u/start/index.html
• U.S. National Archives and Records Administration
  http//www.archives.gov/index.html
• The New York Public Library Digital Library
  Collection http//digital.nypl.org/

Cohen, V. L. (2004)